biota All organisms in a given area.
biotechnology The use of living organisms to provide products for humanity; using genetic engineering to create organisms with useful traits.
biotic Of or relating to life.
4. [Syn. biota] all the plants and animals of a specific region, e.g. the biology of Pennsylvania
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(1988), "Threatened biotas: 'hot spots' in tropical forests", Environmentalist, 8, 187-208.
^ Myers N. (1990), "The biodiversity challenge: expanded hot-spots analysis", Environmentalist, 10, 243-256.
^ J. Alroy, C.R. et al.2001.
When the normal flora are disrupted, it shifts the mix of microbiota and can lead to disease. For example, the use of some broad-spectrum antibiotics can dramatically decrease the numbers of bacteria in the colon.
Top image: Biota of a typical Devonian coral reef. Middle image: Cladoselache fyleri, a 3-foot shark, was one of the top predators in the Devonian seas. Bottom image: The goniatite Goldringia is at center.
More than 800 billion tons of carbon are in the world's biota, mainly in cells of trees. An additional 1,000 to 3,000 billion tons of carbon occurs in plant and animal remains in the soil.
The theory specifically postulates that all of the earth's known biota are genealogically related, much in the same way that siblings or cousins are related to one another.
 See also: Organ, Life, Origin, Plant, Evolution
  
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